Slotting Technician - Food Distribution Center - Thornton

Pay range per hour: $20.19 - $36.35. Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.

Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play.

We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

Target’s Food and Beverage Supply Chain is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how we get the right product to the right guest even better, faster and more cost effectively than before. We are becoming more intelligent, automated and algorithmic in our decision‑making, so that no matter how guests shop—in stores or on —we deliver the convenience and immediate gratification they demand and deserve.

We are on a mission to win decisively over any competitor, with a seamless and superior guest service experience unlike any they can offer. Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we constantly come together to implement new processes in record time.

In this role on the Capacity Management Team within the Food Supply Chain, you will be relentlessly focused on how we can drive Product Availability to our stores and guests by increasing throughput and storage capacity across our network. We’re looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, risk‑savvy and comfortable working in varying degrees of ambiguity. You will work cross‑functionally with experts from across Food and Beverage to support co‑creation of solutions to reduce costs, increase storage capacity, improve speed and quality for replenishment activities, and balance our current and future Food Supply Chain network demand.

You will help scope a broad set of initiatives and ideas to identify the storage capacity problem, potential impact, and the resources needed to solve; you’ll also be actively engaged in developing solutions alongside experts from across the organization, including Field Operations and Inventory Management.

• Manage and iterate the tools used for storage capacity constraints in a single Food Supply Chain Facility and share information obtained to assist with network slotting initiatives.
• Leverage existing tenets to determine the “optimal” slotting position for all items in a Food Supply Chain Facility by chamber based on inputs such as item velocity, racking/location dimensions, automation capabilities, supporting efficient use of inventory capital, site transportation and operating expense, and store labor expense.
• Operate power equipment to move items to optimal storage location in the supply chain facility.
• Partner with Capacity Management and Operations leadership on adherence/governance to what the Slotting Models indicate as well as improving the models when opportunities are identified.
• Brainstorm, prioritize, and execute projects to increase storage capacity and slotting efficiencies.
• Learn Target’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) to understand daily operations and support system troubleshooting.

• High school diploma or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years work…